Pictorn.

Brit.

/ˈpɪktə/, U.S.

/ˈpɪktər/

Forms:

α. 1900s– Pictor.

β. (In Latin genitive form) 1900s– Pictoris Brit. /pɪkˈtɔːrɪs/, /ˈpɪktərɪs/, U.S. /ˈpɪktərɪs/.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: Latin pictor.

Etymology: < classical Latin pictor painter ( < pict- , past participial stem of pingere paint v.¹ + -or -or suffix), as an abbreviation of scientific Latin Equuleus Pictorius painter's easel (N. L. de La Caille Astronomiæ Fundamenta (1757) 194/3), after French Chevalet du Peintre, name for the constellation introduced by N. L. de La Caille in 1752 ( Mém. de l'Acad. Royale des Sci. (1756) 589).The use of the Latin genitive case form as postmodifier in star names is a practice that originated in post-classical Latin.

Astronomy.

(The name of) an inconspicuous constellation of the southern hemisphere, south and east of the star Canopus in the constellation Puppis; the Painter. Also (in form Pictoris) used as postmodifier in the names of stars belonging to this constellation. Abbreviated Pic (no point).

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a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 507 Equuleus Pictorius.]

1847 J. F. W. Herschel Results Astron. Observ. 308 In the names of Bode's constellations, for brevity, the following changes or contractions have been habitually made..Pictor, for Equuleus, or Pluteum Pictoris.

1890 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. & Pract. Astron. (ed. 4) III. viii. 211 Equuleus Pictoris... This constellation is now generally known as Pictor.

1925 Science 5 June (Suppl.) p. x/2 The nova is in the constellation of Pictor, the ‘Painter’, which can never be seen from points north of the Tropic of Cancer.

1938 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 24 527 There is a general tendency towards increasing population from a region in Aquarius..to a region in Pictor,..some two hundred million light-years distant.

1998 Mod. Astronomer Mar. 57/2 These new images take us deeper into the Beta Pictoris solar system than ever before.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pictor
释义	Pictorn. Brit. /ˈpɪktə/, U.S. /ˈpɪktər/ Forms: α. 1900s– Pictor. β. (In Latin genitive form) 1900s– Pictoris Brit. /pɪkˈtɔːrɪs/, /ˈpɪktərɪs/, U.S. /ˈpɪktərɪs/. Origin: A borrowing from Latin; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: Latin pictor. Etymology: < classical Latin pictor painter ( < pict- , past participial stem of pingere paint v.¹ + -or -or suffix), as an abbreviation of scientific Latin Equuleus Pictorius painter's easel (N. L. de La Caille Astronomiæ Fundamenta (1757) 194/3), after French Chevalet du Peintre, name for the constellation introduced by N. L. de La Caille in 1752 ( Mém. de l'Acad. Royale des Sci. (1756) 589).The use of the Latin genitive case form as postmodifier in star names is a practice that originated in post-classical Latin. Astronomy. (The name of) an inconspicuous constellation of the southern hemisphere, south and east of the star Canopus in the constellation Puppis; the Painter. Also (in form Pictoris) used as postmodifier in the names of stars belonging to this constellation. Abbreviated Pic (no point). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Pictor Pictor1847 Painter's Easel1853 painter1925 a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 507 Equuleus Pictorius.] 1847 J. F. W. Herschel Results Astron. Observ. 308 In the names of Bode's constellations, for brevity, the following changes or contractions have been habitually made..Pictor, for Equuleus, or Pluteum Pictoris. 1890 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. & Pract. Astron. (ed. 4) III. viii. 211 Equuleus Pictoris... This constellation is now generally known as Pictor. 1925 Science 5 June (Suppl.) p. x/2 The nova is in the constellation of Pictor, the ‘Painter’, which can never be seen from points north of the Tropic of Cancer. 1938 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 24 527 There is a general tendency towards increasing population from a region in Aquarius..to a region in Pictor,..some two hundred million light-years distant. 1998 Mod. Astronomer Mar. 57/2 These new images take us deeper into the Beta Pictoris solar system than ever before. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847
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